Dramatic morning
Jan. 3rd, 2014 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessQuite a bit of drama around these parts this morning. A visit to the vet earlier this week resulted in the determination that the Grey One had to go in for kitty surgery early this morning. My initial plan had been to act Totally Normal and with that Fool Her into taking her usual morning nap and quickly grab her, wrap her in a towel and stuff her into her cat carrier, a method that had worked perfectly well earlier this week even if it had left me with slightly shattered eardrums.
Unfortunately I had forgotten that part of the plan today included removing all food by 10 pm (vet's orders). Neither cat approved of this since this also meant removing Midnight Snacks, and decided to express their disapproval by clawing at me. By 1 or 2 am I had more or less had it and kicked the cats out so I could sleep. When I woke up I was very groggy and thought to myself, wait, do I really want to chase a cat out from inside the bed? No, no I do not. So I did something that seemed sensible at the time -- I closed my bedroom door.
This, alas, combined with the removal of the food and the fact that I went to find coffee instead of bringing out food raised suspicions. When moments had passed, and the Grey One found that I was sitting in the living room with coffee, not bringing her food even though she was obviously dying, and that the doors to ALL THREE BEDROOMS were closed, she did the only sensible thing a cat can do under the circumstances:
She howled up a storm and then darted INTO the wall behind the bathtub.
If you have never tried to remove a cat from this sort of situation, my advice is, don't. She was completely out of reach -- and knew it -- making this a two person job that required removing part of another wall and a hose and a lot of stomping in the bathtub. We finally got her to run out only to have her hide behind the DVD player which was more drama, and arrived completely late at the vet's.
Seriously hoping all of this money and effort spent on making the poor cat completely miserable turns out to be worth it.
Meanwhile the Little One is freaking out. I told him that the other cat would be back soon, but apparently I am no longer trustworthy. I sense I shall be administering plenty of tuna in the near future.
Unfortunately I had forgotten that part of the plan today included removing all food by 10 pm (vet's orders). Neither cat approved of this since this also meant removing Midnight Snacks, and decided to express their disapproval by clawing at me. By 1 or 2 am I had more or less had it and kicked the cats out so I could sleep. When I woke up I was very groggy and thought to myself, wait, do I really want to chase a cat out from inside the bed? No, no I do not. So I did something that seemed sensible at the time -- I closed my bedroom door.
This, alas, combined with the removal of the food and the fact that I went to find coffee instead of bringing out food raised suspicions. When moments had passed, and the Grey One found that I was sitting in the living room with coffee, not bringing her food even though she was obviously dying, and that the doors to ALL THREE BEDROOMS were closed, she did the only sensible thing a cat can do under the circumstances:
She howled up a storm and then darted INTO the wall behind the bathtub.
If you have never tried to remove a cat from this sort of situation, my advice is, don't. She was completely out of reach -- and knew it -- making this a two person job that required removing part of another wall and a hose and a lot of stomping in the bathtub. We finally got her to run out only to have her hide behind the DVD player which was more drama, and arrived completely late at the vet's.
Seriously hoping all of this money and effort spent on making the poor cat completely miserable turns out to be worth it.
Meanwhile the Little One is freaking out. I told him that the other cat would be back soon, but apparently I am no longer trustworthy. I sense I shall be administering plenty of tuna in the near future.